St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-30

ladies and others we're present, and directly in
about half an hour in come the mistress with
her boy by her side, aud the great big tears
running down his cheeks. And the mother
carried him right into the parlor and said,
well, my poor boy, where have you been?
And he said: Mother, was at Shreveport
and was on my way TO Texas, ana he said
felt like ought to come home-I couldn't
explain it. And hadn't hada thought of it
an hour before. just got OF the train, went
to the hotel and left my baggage ard
took the first train that went to-
ward home and, mother here am. Mother
said: ''Son, l know how it is. You get down
on your knees and your mother is going to
pray for YOU" He said: "Mother, am not
worthy to get down beside pure Christian
woman. Mother. don't make me do that"
And the mother said: "You shall do it. Don't
talk to your old mother like that, about be-
ing unworthy" And she prayed almost
solid hour for that boy. And she said there
is an answer to our prayers. And took his
hand and said, I hope they will be answered
i'll many more respects than one. The second
day he was soundly converted to God. And
he was
BRIGHT, VIGOROUS YOUNG MAN,
and the next heard of him he was studying
Tor the ministry and going iuto the ministry
for Jesus Christ to proclaim the gospel tidings
10 lost world. And 1 tell you, mothers, just
as certain, and just as soon as you get down
and call upon God Alright, you are going to
see things move. [Cries of amen. There
isn't any doubt about that. When l was
working down there at Macon, Ga, was
stopping there at the home of dry goods
merchant: he was u Cody, clever sort of
man. His wife was good to him every day.
he was careless and Indifferent One night
when she got home from the church and he'd
come home from the store and was in bed.
She came In the room, and he was kind
husband, and he said: what sort of meeting
did you have tonight" She said: Illus
band, everybody enjoyed it but me-
why" said he, wife don't see
why you didn't enjoy it; you are one
OF the best women in the world. why she
said, husband, L can't enjoy anything be-
cause am so troubled about you. He said,
''Wife, don't trouble about me; am going to
be Christian some day." Yes she said,
husband, you have said this Tor ten years,
ever since the day we were married.; but you
know last summer when you were so ill
and the doctors Eads given you up, do
you remember it? And 1 thought you
was lost forever, aud prayed God so earn
estly to soare your life. And now God has
spared your life, and you are still Indifferent
and careless. Now, husband, my heart Is al
most broken over your condition. You have
been kind husband to me. But oh, hus-
band, I am so troubled about your SOUL Aud
now she said, You go in and go to sleep.
am going into the next room across the hall
and kneel down and pray all night. Pray
all night for what? he said. Pray
all night for you, she replied He
said, wife stay in this room and pray. Ah,
she said, husband, want to be alone with
God, and talk with Him about you. She
walked across the hall, aud shut the door and
knelt down, and she prayed until the clock
struck II, then IL, and just before the clock
struck l she heard the door open, and he
walked in and kneit down
By HER SIDE,
and said: precious wife am going to help
you pray the balance Of the night. l am the
most miserable man in the world And next
morning at the breakfast table saw the hap
piest man and wife in the World. l was back
there twelve months since &nd they were still
happy-hand in hand for heaven. Oh, how
wish I could see souls interested in this
town like that, and appealing one for an
other. When in Barnesviile, Ga, the meeting
rolled on something like this. And when l
walked down to breakfast one morning Mr.
Cook, my host, said to me: "Jones, do you
know Mrs. Murphy was up here at sun up
this morning" / said no. He said yes she
was here at sun up l said what is the mat
ter? He said, ''she told me she couldn't sleep
one wink last night. The burden and spirit
of prayer was on her SO heavily she
couldn't sleep and called her husband
at daylight and said: Husband have
you the spirit and burden of prayer on you?
Well, he said, no, wife, ! don't feel it. Then
she said am going Somcfrhere to hunt SYM
patnJ. Anu Sne>aa-n ! g.:Ot up and dressed
myself and went up to Sister Stevens house.
right in front of mine. And 1 said, Sister
Stevens. L am. hunting to seek sympathy.
Sister Stevens said: mot one wink have I
slept last night either, and my soul
is burdened, and Brother Jones she
came on here and she looked like
corpse, she looked almost wild. l said:
"Now, Brother Cook, you watch; something
is going TO move; you mind what tell you.''
And that very day the Oldest citizen of the
town, leading wealthy man, an old, hard
ened sinner, was converted to God that day,
and about eighty-scven people walked up at
one time and surrendered their hearts to
God and
JOINED THE CHURCH.
And tell you wherever you see Gods peo-
pie get in earnest and they begin to cry to
God with all their might, you going to see
things move. That is what we want-a moral
cyclone. And that is where the conditions
meet and the power of god rests upon the
people. Mr.. Charles G. Finney, man. a
most Omnipotent preacher, he said that g.
precedent preceding every revival that he
ever held or that amouied to much
was when the spirit of prayer descended upon
the people in power. L have known them
absolutely to kneel down on the sidewalks
and pray God to come down on the peopIe
and everywhere. And the spirit of PRAYER
preceded it. And whenever we get the peo-
pie of Minneapolis on their knees and CRYING
for mercy you. are going to see the power of
God upon the people. Do you expect it?
Are you crying unto God night and
day? If you are you have got
not time for criticism; youv' got no time for
dillydallying about this and about that l
love to see people in meeting like this so
busy with their prayers THAI they haven't
| time to do anything else. And the devil
don't want any nicer institution on his
part than to just get the people of God to
quit praying, and go to cLiticising every
thing said and done. And this asylum
out here has the finest critics of
this state in it, but all the critics
amt in there yet. 1t takes less sense to criti-
else than anything else in the world And
when body hasn't got much sense they say
/ am the critic of the town, and its my busi-
ness to find fault with everything that comes
along. Oh, just think it is outrageous,
count thing you, We both think it out
rageous. Poor old soul. You had better
move, and get up and dust yourself, Or the
DEVIL WILL GET YOU
and your squad, you'd better move Pray.
AND where you pray TO God and be deeply in
earnest you will see things move as you never
saw them move before in your life. I have
talked about forty minutes Your time is
out. But brother, you may just say what you
please, but never talked more good hard
sense than 1 have talked to you about prayer
in the last forty minutsS. Get YOUR
sell 10 Wnere Gou VIII near your prayer,
and then ask what you will and it
will be given you, because God is not slack
concerning his promises but always faithful
to perform them. And now, brother here is
these mothers. Scores of them stood up and
said I am going TO pray for my children.
Fathers who stood up and said am going to
pray for my sons. These young men and
ladies said 1 am going to pray for my
neighbor. Find out what it is that
keeps your message from heaven,
and get your wires insulated for tonight
and then send your messages heavenward and
| then get your answer before night closes this
evening. Will you? Will your God grant